The Turco-Mongol Invasions and the Lords of Armenia in the 13 ...

Soon thereafter T'ovma's beloved teacher was taken to
the Ayrarat district by other students and T'ovma who set
out after him with his classmates was unable to convince
him to return . According to Kirakos Banaser, Grigor
Tat 'ewac*i conferred the vardapetal dignity on T'ovma
p
in Erewan . T'ovma then returned to Hecop* where he
engaged in teaching and literary activity. However between
1421 and 1437 southern Armenia once again became a theater
of warfare between Turkmena, Mongols, and Kurds. In
1430 T'ovma fled for his life to the island of Lim in
Lake Van. In 1436 he and his students fled to Xlat',
ArSea and Arcke . T'ovma Mecop'ec'i was one of the major
protagonists involved in transferring the Armenian kat'ol-
ikosate from Sis back to fijmiacin in 1441 . After the
realization of his dream, T'ovma returned to his beloved
Mecop* where he died three years later, in 1446'.
1. Xajikyan, 0£.£it.., p. 101.
2 Ter-Davt'yan» p. 154.
3 Tli, pp. 83, 85, 87-89, 90-95, 108-109.
4 T'ovma described this in his other surviving work,
T'ovma Mecop'ec'u Yisatakarana[T'ovma Mecop'eg'i's Colophon]
K.kostanean, e¥.~(Tiflis, 1892)7 "
Ter-Davt'yan, p.157.
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